From 0 to 64k in four years
The building of the world’s first open source Pan-CJK Typeface family. Presented by Caleb Belohlavek and Stuart Gill at ATypI Barcelona 2014
Tag Font Technology
Speed punk
Yanone introduces his software ‘Speed Punk’, a learning tool made to better understand the nature of Bézier curves. From the 2013 ATypI conference in Amsterdam. Speed Punk is an add-on tool for modern type design applications such Glyphs.app and RoboFont that illustrates the curvature on top of the Bézier outlines — while designing. It has proven… Continue reading Speed punk
Yearning for kerning
Frank Grießhammer explain what creates an overflow in a kern table and what we can do about it. From the 2013 ATypI conference in Amsterdam. It is quite common for modern fonts to contain a great number of kerning pairs. Despite modern tools, kerning still is tedious work for the type designer. After all the… Continue reading Yearning for kerning
Athena Ruby: when shape has meaning
Presentation by John Hudson to ATypI Letter.2 in Buenos Aires on 4 October 2011 Most of the time, the shapes of letters do not affect their meaning. An A is an A is an A, regardless of whether it is roman or italic, light or heavy, serif or sans serif. For scholars dealing with historical… Continue reading Athena Ruby: when shape has meaning